misterious GIT failure

[Ken Brown]

On 1/14/2021 5:27 PM, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> ring a bell with anyone?
> C:\Users\mp1116\Downloads>Err_6.4.5.exe 0xc0000279# for hex 0xc0000279 / decimal -1073741191  STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED                              ntstatus.h# The layered file system driver for this IO tag did not# handle it when needed.# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_NULL (0x0), Code 0x279# for hex 0x279 / decimal 633

Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH?  There was a problem reported 
in early December in which STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED would sometimes 
occur when there was a symlink in PATH:

   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-December/246938.html

This was fixed.  You can test whether the same fix works for you by installing 
the latest snapshot from

   https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Ken